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Get /httpclient/rtm – 200 OK

May 29, 2013 May 29, 2013 05/29/13
Immo Landwerth
As promised in our last blog post we’re releasing Microsoft.Net.Http as a stable NuGet package today. Yep, that’s right: You can finally start using the portable HttpClient 2.1 in production! As we’ve discussed in previous blog posts, HttpClient is a modern networking API which makes it easy to access any resource exposed ...

Portable HttpClient is now available as RC

May 22, 2013 May 22, 2013 05/22/13
Immo Landwerth
Three months ago we shipped the first preview of the portable HttpClient. Many of you wondered when we would ship the RTM version. Today, we’re happy to announce the first step towards an RTM: We shipped a release candidate (RC) of HttpClient (Microsoft.Net.Http package on NuGet) that includes all the bug fixes since the preview. New ...

Portable HttpClient is now available as RC

May 22, 2013 May 22, 2013 05/22/13
Immo Landwerth
Three months ago we shipped the first preview of the portable HttpClient. Many of you wondered when we would ship the RTM version. Today, we’re happy to announce the first step towards an RTM: We shipped a release candidate (RC) of HttpClient (Microsoft.Net.Http package on NuGet) that includes all the bug fixes since the preview. New ...

Portable HttpClient is now available as RC

May 22, 2013 May 22, 2013 05/22/13
Immo Landwerth
Three months ago we shipped the first preview of the portable HttpClient. Many of you wondered when we would ship the RTM version. Today, we’re happy to announce the first step towards an RTM: We shipped a release candidate (RC) of HttpClient (Microsoft.Net.Http package on NuGet) that includes all the bug fixes since the preview. New ...

Portable HttpClient is now available as RC

May 22, 2013 May 22, 2013 05/22/13
Immo Landwerth
Three months ago we shipped the first preview of the portable HttpClient. Many of you wondered when we would ship the RTM version. Today, we’re happy to announce the first step towards an RTM: We shipped a release candidate (RC) of HttpClient (Microsoft.Net.Http package on NuGet) that includes all the bug fixes since the preview. New ...

.NET Crash Dump and Live Process Inspection

May 1, 2013 May 1, 2013 05/1/13
Immo Landwerth
Analyzing crash dumps can be complicated. Although Visual Studio supports viewing managed crash dumps, you often have to resort to more specialized tools like the SOS debugging extensions or WinDbg. In today’s post, Lee Culver, software developer on the .NET Runtime team, will introduce you to a new managed library that allows you to ...

Social Engineering

April 24, 2013 Apr 24, 2013 04/24/13
Immo Landwerth
When people in our industry use the term “social engineering” they are usually referring to security attacks. Politicians and lobbyists would mean something entirely different too. But that’s not what I will talk about here. Instead, I’ll talk about the kind of social life we’ve around in our team. Why am I using ...

The Defrag Tools Channel9 series on managed memory diagnostics

April 5, 2013 Apr 5, 2013 04/5/13
maoni
Recently I did a few videos for the popular "Defrag Tools" series on Channel9. They are just talking about pretty basic things about doing managed memory investigations so I'd imagine for most of you it's something you already know. However, you can feel free to suggest things you'd like to see in the comments of these videos (or on this blog ...

.NET Memory Allocation Profiling with Visual Studio 2012

April 4, 2013 Apr 4, 2013 04/4/13
.NET Team
This post was written by Stephen Toub, a frequent contributor to the Parallel Programming in .NET blog. He shows us how Visual Studio 2012 and an attention to detail can help you discover unnecessary allocations in your app that can prevent it from achieving higher performance. Visual Studio 2012 has a wealth of valuable functionality, ...

.NET Framework Documentation Improvements

February 19, 2013 Feb 19, 2013 02/19/13
Brandon Bray
The CLR documentation team has been busy responding to feedback and making updates and changes to the .NET Framework documentation in the MSDN Library. We would like to tell you about the most recent set of document updates, which were published earlier in February. Performance content We have received extensive customer feedback regarding ...